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Minister unveils plague New provincial pork Opened in Tiny James Auld for left minister of natural resources unveils the plaque to officially declare Awenda Provincial Park open Others present in clude left to right MPP George Taylor PC SimcoeCentre Morris Darby Reeve of Tiny Failure not simple matter Township Bill Gibbins Warden of Simcoe County MP Doug Lewis PCSimcoeNorth and Rene Brunelle provincial secretary for resource development Examiner Photo Responsibility must be taken by schools when child fails Ry TERRY FIELD The Examiner child failing to learn is often the result of an education system that fails to teach him says Charlie llarvie special education consultant with the Simcoe County Board of Educa tion word youll never hear around special education teachers is lazy because if the chld appears lazy it is because he is not motivated or on the defensive Harvie said Years ago it was thought child failed to thrive because he wasnt trying hard enough or he was dumb The school must take the responsibility of leading the child place him in an environ ment where he will take the risk of trying to adapt Harvie said Chilren often wont take the chance of being wrong They have learned they will be wrong and they have learned they will be embarrassed There are some 4500 special education students in Simcoe County The majority children with average intelligence who have trouble learning Harvie told The Examiner the system of education employed can be adapted to suit the needs of the person who for some reason has dif ficulty with the regular pro gram The board employs resource and withdrawal pro gram to deal with these children The child is taken from the classroom at regular intervals for sessions with special education teacher who gives them the attention they need INTERACTION IREACIIEI Most of the childs time however it spent in the normal classroom setting where he may interact with the others That interaction Harvie said is as important and perhaps more important than formal lessons Six consultants work with teachers and principals help with the development of special programs for child prepare reports for the head of special education visit with the child to observe him at work or play work with four psychometrists who test children and identify skills and deficiencies meet with parents to explain pro grams In short We deal with any typical problems in learning either because child has trou ble or has exceptional skills and examiner girl Martha is one reason the guys hang out at Bayfield Mall Shes working at is working below his potential Harvie said The consultants are also charged with following up on the children taking special pro grams and acting as liasons between the board of education and outside agencies designed to deal with problems the board cannot handle Harvie said Township angered by soil stripping Essa Township has brought an injunction against Barrie contractor and his company to prevent him stripping away topsoil from land zoned agriculture by the municipali ty Bill Leslie of Stewart Esten in Barrie lawyer for the township said Thursday restraining order has been placed against Lawrence McArthur and his company Number 271887 Ontario In corporated under township bylaw passed in 1978 Passed under the Act to Preserve Topsoil in Ontario the bylaw requires landowners to obtain permit for removal of topsoil and the townships policy is not to issue any permit to owners of land zoned agricultural said Leslie Trites for the summer high school graduate she hopes to pursue higher education at Queens University Her other interests include tennis and swimming Examiner Photo by Peter Hsu The municipalitys official plan designates the township as an agricultural area and any development must be in har mony with it he said Leslie said the townshp view ed topsoil removal as very serious thing We have report from the land development branch of the ministry of agriculture and food which states that it takes 300 to 1000 years to build up single inch of topsoil He said about nine to 12 in ches of topsoil have been removed from the 85acre site in question on concession 31 just south of Highway 90 and the land has been permanently harmed in terms of productivi ty Although the incident is not common one it could become more of an issue as agricultural land becomes more scarce Leslie said McArthur who owns the land said he was removing the topsoil for landscaping of city parks in Barrie He said he was thinking of contesting the injunction as the land wont grow anything McArthur said there is already gravel pit in opera tion on the property and he was not aware that part of the adja cent land had been zoned agricultural You have to strip the topsoil off to get to the gravel he said Decision on By RICHARD THOMAS Of The Examiner Awenda Provincial Park located in Tiny Township about 11 kilometres north of Penetanguishene was declared officially open Wednesday by James Auld minister of natural resources and energy The 22 square km natural park formerly known as Methodist Point Park is the provinces newest and brings the total number of Ontarios parks to 128 This is going to be one of the major gems in our provincial system Auld told the more than 100 guests and politicians from several levels of governd ment who attended the opening Auld said Awenda contains 17 sites of significant ar cheological importance to the provinces history including two Indian villages It ties in very well with the History of Huronia Auld said and compliments other popular historic tourist attrac tions in the area such as Ste MarieAmongTheHurons in Our survey shows Midland and the Naval and Military Establishments in Penetanguishene During his brief opening speech Auld also praised the provinces provincial parks system which he said was se cond to one on this continent Also on hand to declare the park open were Morris Darby Reeve of Tiny Township Bill Gihhins Warden of Simcoe County MPP George Taylor PCSimcoeCentre MP Doug Lewis iPCSimcoeNorth and provincial Rene Brunelle Dunlop shops losing because of minimall By DENNIS LANTHIER Of The Examiner Downtown merchants say they have lost enough business already due to the reconstruc tion of Dunlop Street barrier which as placed on the street by the downtown board to promote minimall did not help matters they say The Examiner surveyed number of downtown mer chants affected by the reconstruction Tuesday city council decided to lift the barrier as conces sion to merchants to allow local traffic through the area Theres been few worst days since Ive been here said Jack Oates owner of Oates Paint and Wallpaper As long as traffic is flowing through here we dont mind The street closure which Oates said the merchants thought would only be in effect for little while adversely affected business on the street he said The barrier was psycholotical deterrent for shoppers he said Bob Byers owner of Harris Flowers couldnt believe how quiet it was Monday morning when the barricade was put up Byers said its hard enough to get tourist dollars with construction going on Byers said he couldnt understand city councils action by allowing construction to pro ceed in the summer months Bell union says strikes over for now There will likely be no more rotating strikes by Bell Canada technicians from now until Sun day when votes will be counted and union members either ac cept or reject the companys contract offer Duncan Beattie president of the Communication Workers of Canada Local 40 says the workers are sitting tight un til that time CWC members across 0n tario and Quebec have been staging series of rotating strikes in protest against con ciliators report for settlement The man issues in dispute are wages and overtime work COUISG inadequate for some pleased others By TERRY FIELD The Examiner Postponing full implementa tion of the human relations pro gram has pleased moderate opponent but those who demand cancellation have labelled the school boards action inade quate Under no Circumstances says the Simcoe Taxpayers Organization Researching Education should the public school system take the respon sibility of teaching morals to students The promise of revisions in the proposed program represents compromise the organization which includes six groups that have banded together is not prepared to ac cept Ted Wolda president told The Examiner Its literally step in the right direction James Watt chairman of the middleof theroad Alliston InterChurch Committee on Human Rela tions said of the boards action taken during meeting week ago The committee had asked for postponement community par ticipation in preparing the pro gram stressed the need to teach the difference between right and wrong and asked that Christian values be recogniz ed portion of the cirriculum The board adopted each stand as its own and the committee has been tentatively invited to participate in the revision pro 185 The boards move recognizes the inadequacy of the curriculum in its present torm We the committee see the need for basic course but we didnt see eyetoeye with the board on the specifics Watt said Frank Prothero Simcoe County Board of Education trustee Frank Prothero the engineer of series of amend ments that detailed moves the board later adopted said the program should please the greatest number of people possible Wolda said his organization believes the teaching of morals should be left to the parents of child pluralistic public school system should not ad vance the doctrine of one facet of society he said If we have no say in this matter and they go ahead with the program it should teach Chrisian values Wolda said The organization is against what it considers humanist approach the program takes towardlife In brief presented to the board the organization said the human relations program was based on the work of humanist writers and educators who want to start revolution by molding the minds of societys children Some 16 briefs concerning the program were submitted to the board during three May meetings The offerings were divided equally tor and against He said many of the stores along the street rely on the tourist dollar in June July and August to make ends meet The downtown board didnt complete their job in discuss ing minimall with mer chants he said While merchants were initial ly asked if theyd like mall no meetings were held after he said The barricade was put up without the previous knowledge of the merchants he said Leo Rutter owner of Smith and Rutter Furniture Ltd said it was great relief to see the barricade taken from the street Rutter originated the peti tion which he said was signed by 32 objectors Business is down about 20 per cent at Oakes and Sons shoe store said Bill Oakes owner Oakes said though that he has worked in construction before and understands the pro blems now faced The mall was improperly organized said Oakes Nor mally when you think of mall there is an idea of carnival atmosphere said Oakes BUSINESS TO RUN Horace Beaumont coowner of Monarch TV and Ap pliances said downtown store owners have businesses to run He along with other mer chants said the barricades were preventing delivery trucks from coming through In some cases the merchants went out and removed the bar ricades themselves he said He said business at his store had dropped Things are not particularly bright either for the Bayshore Motor Hotel says Byng Mayor coowner Room service was dropped considerably since construction began he said But food and beverage sales havent dropped too much because business comes from local people who have been to the hotel before he said Weve lost months business and were not com plaining abut that he said But when we have possibili ty of getting the street open for gods sake lets open it up In addition to road construc tion the hotel has suffered because Americans who wont venture out onto the roads due to the gas shortage have also cancelled the examiner Thaiuhme 1979 11 secretary for resources development Brunelle who was born in Penetanguishene com plimented Tom Stott park superintendent for his bilingual approach to the parks ad ministration This park will be one of the most historical in the province if not Canada Brunelle said Developed by the federal and provincial govermnents under the Agricultural Rural Development Act ARDA Awenda was unofficially open ed last year for campers during the summer and crosscountry skiers during the winter said Stott Featuring three km of beach backed by the SOmetre high Nippising bluff the park cur rently has 150 campsites and plans are underway to develop another 150 Parttime firemen get raise Parttime firefighters in Bar rie will get salary increase Barrie general committee recommended Tuesday council give 79 per cent salary in crease in 1979 and seven per cent increase in 1980 The total sum of $47570 will be given to 24 parttime firefighters in the city town country sion control he said Wednesday valuation was $2882392 The major factor in the increase was the construction start in June of the senior citizens building in Stroud Even without that construction building valuation is up from last year said Grant Andrade deputy reeve Barrie cor tire extinguished Wednesday Holstein club plans evening The Simcoe County milk committee and the Simcoe Coun ty Holstein Club will cosponsor this years annual dairy twlight program July 13 for all Simcoe County milk pro ducers their families and friends Beginning pm the program this year will be held at the Peter Vanderpost farm in Essa Township about three miles west of Cookstown and one mile north of Highway 89 Innisfil predictions correct BARCLAY Early predictions Innisfil would have large year in building constructions have materialized said Doug Reid building inspector Were up very substantially in construction valuation From Jan 1979 to June 30 1979 construction valuation was $4306728 For the same period lsst year construction Twilight meeting arranged The North Simcoe Soil and Crop Improvement Association will hold its annual twlight meeting at the Midhurst Demonstration Site July 17 beginning 730 pm Guest speaker will be Howard Nodwell associate director or the ministry of agricultures extension branch who will outline the new Ontario Farm Productivity Incentive Pro gram which focuses largely on soil management and era Firefighters extinguished fire in car at the intersection of Bell Farm Road and Duckworth Street about pm Chief Jack McAllister said fire broke out in the engine of the 1975 Ford owned by Allen Peter of RR Stayner Damage is estimated at $500 Read the fine print on your light beer OnlyTrilight has 60 calories Check the label on your light beer and see how it stacks up against Trilight Know what youll find When it comes to light beer Nobody brews it lighter